Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse

Description

POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. London: Frederick Warne [1919]. 16mo, 81pp. Gray boards stamped in black with color pictorial label affixed to front. Color pictorial endpapers; 27 full-page color illustrations. Spine a bit sunned with some rubbing at ends, else an internally clean, bright copy.

First edition, second printing, having open quotes at the start of p. 39 and the letter N present in London on the title page. The charming tale of a country mouse who accidentally makes his way into the city and befriends a city mouse, based on the fable by Aesop. A lovely copy of one of the final books in Potters beloved Peter Rabbit books. Linder p. 430, Quinby 25.